rspec not saving to database - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm trying to test the login method below, but it does not seem to be saving the data_provider_user to the database. I've checked using debugger and it works perfectly until it leaves the method and goes back to the rspec code, as shown below. I've also checked to see if the object is valid after it save using .valid? and it is so I'm a bit lost!
def login
require 'TwitterOauth'
#data_provider_user = DataProviderUser.find(params[:id])
if #data_provider_user.twitter?
#request_token = TwitterOauth.request_url
#data_provider_user.access_token = #request_token.token
#data_provider_user.oauth_token_secret = #request_token.secret
if #data_provider_user.save
debugger
redirect_to #request_token.authorize_url
end
end
end
Test:
it "should update the tokens" do
require 'TwitterOauth'
TwitterOauth.stub(:request_url).and_return(#token)
debugger
get :login, {id: #data_provider_user.id}
debugger
#data_provider_user.access_token.should_not eq(nil)
#data_provider_user.oauth_token_secret.should_not eq(nil)
end
Debugger output:
#<DataProviderUser id: 84, user_id: 63, data_provider_id: 63, username: nil, password: nil, created_at: "2013-02-19 15:21:59", updated_at: "2013-02-19 15:21:59", access_token: nil, update_frequency: nil, oauth_token_secret: nil>
#<DataProviderUser id: 84, user_id: 63, data_provider_id: 63, username: nil, password: nil, created_at: "2013-02-19 15:21:59", updated_at: "2013-02-19 15:22:12", access_token: "186553918-sEAEO2fcvtyO1x99eH4Q4XwVcOYatODCQ5f1TwqD", update_frequency: nil, oauth_token_secret: "gLw2PtUyTZfxIan1gJBnbP7icboXbi98KlUoOn7ycVs">
#<DataProviderUser id: 84, user_id: 63, data_provider_id: 63, username: nil, password: nil, created_at: "2013-02-19 15:21:59", updated_at: "2013-02-19 15:21:59", access_token: nil, update_frequency: nil, oauth_token_secret: nil>
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
------ UPDATE -------
There was actually nothing wrong with the code, the issue was that rspec was not reloading it in time. A way to get around this was to use:
#data_provider_user.reload
before hand which refreshes the object, updating the values accordingly.

Answer 1

There was actually nothing wrong with the code, the issue was that rspec was not reloading it in time. A way to get around this was to use:
#data_provider_user.reload
before hand which refreshes the object, updating the values accordingly.

Answer 2

In spec/rails_helper.rb
Set false to use_transactional_fixtures:
# If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your
# examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false
# instead of true.
config.use_transactional_fixtures = false

Answer 3

Are you sure you're looking at the right database? When you're doing testing it's probably going to myapp_test (myapp being whatever you called your app). You may be looking at your myapp_development database.
If you're accessing the database via rails db chances are you're going into your development database. You can check with select database(); if you're using MySQL. If you want to check your test database, then use RAILS_ENV=test rails db. Again, you can use the select statement to verify you're in the right database.